We recently received an advanced copy of the new Ken Burns film, The National Parks – America’s Best Idea, which begins airing on PBS starting Sunday, September 27. You can see images from the FHS Archives in the first three episodes and our name in the credits. (By the way, if you can’t get to [...]
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Ken Burns’s other “Best Idea” – Using FHS photos in his PBS film, “The National Parks”
Posted in Current Events, tagged historic film and video, historic photographs, National Park Service on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s “Talk Like a (Log) Pirate” Day
Posted in Historian's Desk, tagged Log Patrol, pirates, Washington on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19, we here at Peeling Back the Barrrrk bring you the dramatic tale “Log Pirates of Puget Sound.” Although “Log Pirates” is an article by Stewart H. Holbrook that appeared in the January 1937 issue of American Forests, it reads like a pulp thriller/film [...]
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- Babe the Grey Elephant, Indian cousin of Paul Bunyan’s ox. Featured Photo: http://ow.ly/E8nV | Published: 2 days ago
- The presentation made by Roderick Nash, our 2009 Lynn W. Day lecturer, covered on Huffington Post: http://bit.ly/26aAmb | Published: 4 days ago
- On this date: 11/17/1844 Elihu Stewart born. Founder of Canadian Forestry Assc & early head of Canadian Forest Service http://bit.ly/34x9BI | Published: 5 days ago
- Drive-thru, 1920 style. Car tunnel through giant red cedar tree stump. Featured Photo: http://ow.ly/za6p | Published: 2 weeks ago
- The Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in NC celebrates 75 years of influential forest watershed research: http://wp.me/piGxC-G8 | Published: 2 weeks ago
